Octobromance

 FatBeatsRecords Published on Oct 6, 2013

October 15, 2013 Tues

On a whim I purchase Sam Alden's Household after reading a tweet from Dustin Harbin.  I find the online tumblr post and read it ahead of delivery.  It's poignant, heart-breaking, intense.  I feel like I need something to cheer me up afterward, but I'm very grateful for its existence.

Yesterday Steve Niles tweeted about his house getting flooded so today people gathered to help with his expenses. 

People were still tweeting non-stop about Pokemon X/Y.  Brian Wood & Becky Cloonan's Demo came out 10 years ago!  Becky's NYCC recap got around, and some people were talking about the levels of harassment women at the show were experiencing.  It was Ada Lovelace Day and my pal Jenny went to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View and took some choice photos.  Today Frederator announced a Bee & Puppycat kickstarter and everybody went crazy!

I didn't accomplish much because shortly after lunch I fell asleep until just before dusk.  I took a ride around and ran errands, and the evening air was nice.  I made fish, rice, & steamed vegetables and had some PBR micheladas.

October 16, 2013 Wed

It's 12:30 and I've been fumbling again.  The nice thing is I glanced at some tutorials after looking around at Jessie Estrada's dA.  I found her abandoned webcomic Demonspawn.  I think I'm gonna cut my hair today and buy some pants.  Maybe a powerball ticket.  Retirement still hasn't come in.  I read Batman Earth 1 in it's entirety.  It was okay.  I still like Gary Frank even though he draws women like ornaments.  Bluh.

Got reintroduced to Rachel Deering and Anathema.  Hung around the house until about 2pm then rode around eventually to Starbucks.  Bought jeans, gave myself a haircut.  At Starbucks worked on Eurydice and at some point remembered Madame Blavatsky.  Listened to The Mysterious Universe podcast ep 821 and looked through twitter archive.

Bravest Warriors season 2 countdown began today.  I think the gov't shutdown ended.

October 17, 2013 Thurs

I got up around 10:30 this day.  Read about Onyx & Slam.  Learned about Edmund Dulac from Jess Fink.  I started my bboy mix and compiled a bunch of research for The Survivalist.  And then I took off to go hang out with Vince, but he and Daniel found me first as I careened past the cafe.  We holed up there for hours drinking Ancient Organic tea talking comics and what-not.  Then Daniel took off as it got dark.  He and Ian were chatting on FB as Vince and I got into a more personal conversation, and then Ian came and met us.  We walked down and had a couple of good beers, then tried to go find a pizza place, but ended up going to Denny's. 

On Friday (Oct 18) I must have slept in until about noon.  I got into the newest story in House of Orr: Petals around the Rose.  Jessi posted a link to Emily Broso's fantastic sketchdump.  I had a great healthy lunch that afternoon and doinked around with Newt & Jenny.  Later on I started writing a post-apocalyptic short called No Women.  My free copic came in the mail that day. I spent a good amount of time going back & forth with Ian on picking out a race & class type for my D&D character.  I eventually ended up going with a Svirfneblin Alchemist, though I considered a Vanara Rogue, and also a really neat Warforged based on Rom the Spaceknight, Alphonse Elric, North No. 2, and the Guyver.  I actually wanted to do a guyver piece for the Vinces.  I did start a Rom the Spaceknight illo, though.  We actually didn't even get into D&D Friday night on account of all the Angry Ball drinking.  On Saturday  (Oct 19) we eventually rolled out to this cosplay thing in the park.  Vince & Daniel & I put ourselves out there and had a lot of the fun while the others kind of faded to the background.  I tore it up in comic book trivia.  Went back to Ian's for recoop & drinking and then went to a birthday party in the evening where I met somebody.  That was unexpected.  Wow. Most of Sunday was spent talking with twitter family about nerd budding romance.

This week I downloaded a bunch of Akazukin Chacha, Motorcity, Gravity Falls, and Moomins and the Comet Chase.  I owe interest in the latter to a sketch of Snufkin by Lamar Abrams.  It was Emmy C's birthday on Tuesday and I drew this.  I also got to see her do a livestram of a Bravest Warriors piece.

I also started reading Dr. McNinja again and finished An Army of One.  Before that I caught up with My Cardboard Life and read the latest pages in Recyclost.

I'm realizing I've got to get a lot more proactive about finishing things I've started.  I've had this problem all my life, a paralyzing indecisiveness and self-consuming greed to experience an increasingly growing list of things in a continously shrinking amount of time.  Most of all I need to be productive if I'm ever going to get out of this artistic slump.  I want to create.  I want to eke out a living doing this also.  I know the odds of doing so are ridiculous, but I have to keep trying because it's what I've wanted all my life and I'm not sure I can do anything else with myself.

Benoit Therriault
Kalman Adrasofszky
AfuChan 
Bee and Puppycat!

This was the week of the Summer Olympics in London, Otakon, crushes on Samantha Wright, the ESPN body issue, and my Shrödinger's cat lottery ticket.  Ryan Andrews was running a kickstarter for Nothing is Forgotten.  I started following Himanshu Suri, and I sat in on livestreams by Emmy, Lindsay and Alex, Madeleine Flores, and Jordie Bellaire.  OOH Rebecca Dart shared this trailer for Ghibli's Giant God Warrior!  Also Terry Gilliam archives via his daughter, Holly.

 
CosmoKids from David Maingault on Vimeo.

I'm really enjoying Gravity Falls.  It's hilarious!  I slept-watched Akazukin Chacha and caught a glimpse of what happens a quarter of the way into the series.   I also am attempting to give Blue Exorcist a try on the recommendation of a good friend.  I would also like to finally read Dracula Unconquered #1 this weekend in preparation for #2 which was just came out!!

I found out about Guin Saga through Evan Dahm, and agonized over catching up with a gajillion different new release comics.  I walked through my LCS this week and was overwhelmed. I picked up more Regular Show as well as Flapjack this weekend.

I have been interacting with people I really like on twitter and tumblr and maybe soon I will officially be people's art bro.  Now to actually put out some good art that isn't a bunch of bullshit.